Kya takalluf hai wallah
Posted on: June 11, 2026
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‘Jail Yaatra’ (1981) was produced by Vijay Maria and Praveen Bali and was directed by Bhappi Sonie. The cast included Ashok Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Reena Roy, Amjad Khan, Anwar Hussain, Ashoo, Heena Kausar, Jyoti Bakshi, Jaishree T, Anjana Mumtaz, Dhumal, Vandana Shashtri, Rajan Kapoor, Beena, Abhimanyu Sharma, Brahm Bhardwaj, Katy Mirza, Manhar Desai, Keshav Rana, Mushtaq Merchant, Shivraj etc. Nirupa Roy and Jagdeep made their friendly appearances. The film went to floor sometime in 1975 but got delayed in its completion mainly due to Vinod Khanna’s frequent visits to Rajnish Ashram. Incidentally, during 1981-86, Vinod Khanna had taken sabbatical from the film industry.
The film’s director, Bhappi Sonie (1928-2001 ) started his filmy career as an assistant director to debutant director, Raj Khosla in ‘Milap’ (1955). He assisted him in ‘CID’ (1956) and ‘Solva Saal’ (1958). Bappi Sonie debuted as director in ‘Ek Phool Chaar Kaante’ (1959). In 1960s, he directed the box office successful films such as ‘Jaanwar’ (1965), ‘Brahmachari’ (1968) and ‘Pyaar Hi Pyaar’ (1969). He turned producer with the film, ‘Tum Haseen Main Jawaan’ (1970) which he directed. Thereafter, he produced and directed ‘Preetam’ (1971), ‘Jheel Ke Uss Paar’ (1973), Chalta Purza’ (1977), Bade Dilwaala’ (1981). ‘Sasti Dulhan Mahenga Dulha’ (1986) was his last film as the producer-director. Bhappi Sonie produced his last film,’Nishchaiy (1992)’. He was married to actress Madhvi who had mostly worked in films directed by him in 1960s and 1970s.
The story of the film is as under:
Raju (Vinod Khanna) lives with his mother (Nirupa Roy) in Pune. He works as a mechanic. He is a honest man and is of helpful nature. But one of his personality trait is that he has a knack of getting into troubles time and again. As a result, he often lands in police station and gets released after his mother beg to Inspector Dayal (Anwar Hussain) for his release. Fed-up with Raju’s repeated offences, Inspector Dayal tells him to leave Pune (an informal way of externment) or he would take transfer to some other police station. So, Raju decides to shift to Mumbai.
Raju’s mother is not happy with his shifting to Mumbai. The story goes in a flashback mode as to why she is unhappy about his shifting to Mumbai. She reveal to Raju that during his childhood in Mumbai, his father, Ramnath Verma (Ashok Kumar), a lawyer, was seen frequently meeting another woman in her bungalow in the night. Once she had also witnessed his visit. Aggrieved with her husband’s ‘affairs’ with another woman, Raju’s mother with the child left home in the train to Pune during which she met a fellow traveller, Shanta (Vandana Shashtri) who gave her shelter in her house with a ulterior motive – to rob her of jewelries. But she escaped the trap. After hearing her story, Raju vows not to forgive his father when he meets him.
Despite his mother’s reservation, Raju shifts to Mumbai. A lady, Sitara Devi (Ashoo) invites Raju to her place and offers her to sell the Mercedes car for Rs.20/- (There is a reason which the audience later come to know as to why she sold the car at such a low price). At first, Raju thinks that Sitara Devi is out of her mind. But her daughter Roopa (Heena Kausar) comes out and assures him that the car belonged to her mother and she has the right to sell the car for which she has already handed over the car keys to him.
A satisfied Raju drives the car but soon police are after him when Rosie (Katy Mirza) has lodged a complaint that her Mercedes car has been stolen. Raju is arrested and is taken to the police station. Coincidentally, Inspector Dayal has recently been transferred in this police station. Seeing Raju once again, Inspector Dayal get angry that he has not improved even after his externment. But soon Sitara Devi comes with a lawyer and with her husband’s Will to prove that she is the owner of the car and in the Will, there is a stipulation that she can sell the car and the proceeds of the sale to be given to her husband’s mistress, Rosie. With Rs.20/- handed over to her, Rosie has now no locus standi in the matter. Raju is set free and joins Chennareddy Eveready’s (Jagdeep) garage as a mechanic who provides him with the housing accommodation.
Ramnath Verma lives with Shanta and a son, Kuldeep (Amjad Khan). Actually, Kuldeep is not his real son but has been planted in his house some years back by Shanta by telling him that the child was handed over to her by his wife Radha (Nirupa Roy) to take care of him before committing ‘suicide’. Ramnath has accepted Shanta in his house so that she can bring up the child. Shanta’s plan is to inherit the wealth of Ramnath in the name of Kuldeep after his death. But a grown-up Kuldeep has turned out to be a man of bad behaviour. He indulges in wooing girls with promise of marriage but discards them after molesting. Ramnath is ashamed to such an extent that he decides to commit suicide in front of a car driven by Raju who saves him and gives him shelter in his house, He also gets him employed in his garage.
One day Raju goes to a house to deliver a repaired car. The car owner happens to be Shano (Reena Roy), a psychiatrist. Raju gets attracted to her in his first sight. Ramnath assures Raju to help him in this matter. Ramnath comes to know that Kuldeep is also interested in Shano. So, the only way for Raju to compete with Kuldeep is to make him looks like a rich person. Ramnath provides him necessary finances by secretly drawing funds from his bank account. Kuldeep, on the other hand, has been enquiring with the police about any trace of his missing father because so far as his father is not found dead, he cannot inherit his father’s wealth.
Ramnath takes Raju to Shano for ‘psychiatric treatment’ in the guise of a patient who is afraid of females. In the name of the ‘psychiatric treatment’, Shano and Raju sings a couple of love songs by which time they fall in love with each other. Raju and Ramnath thwart the Kuldeep’s attempt to woo Shano through mixing drug in her drink in his birthday party by joining his party as qawwali singers. Thereafter, Raju gets threatened by Kuldeep not to come on his way of his wooing Shano which Raju declines giving him a counter-threat.
Kuldeep’s mother joins him in Mumbai after learning that he has decided to get married to Shano. She gets introduced to Shano and is about to be introduced to Ramnath. It appears that the film is going towards a happy ending. But it is not so in a masala film. The villain, Kuldeep has to play his part in delaying the happy ending.
Roopa is pregnant with Kuldeep’s child and he wants to wriggle out of her. So, he attempts to kill her by giving her a poisonous drink. Her unconscious body is put in the dicky of Raju’s car. With this, Kuldeep has assumed that he has gotten rid of Roopa along with Raju who is arrested by police on the charge of murder of Roopa. Kuldeep tries to kill Ramnath so that he can inherit his wealth but he survives after hospitalisation. Ramnath meets his wife Radha after many years and removes her misunderstanding about him by revealing that he was visiting his clientfrequently in connection with her son who was accused of a murder and was on the run.
Surprisingly, Sitara Devi, the mother of the deceased Roopa tells the police that she knows Raju as a honest man and hence he cannot be the killer of her daughter. Raju’s mother has already told the police that she had seen Kuldeep stabbing her husband, Ramnath. She tells police that her husband is still in the hospital and there is the danger for his life from Kuldeep. The police team along with Shano, Raju and his mother hastily drives to the hospital where Kuldeep is already in Ramnath’s room trying to cut off his blood transfusion. With a long fight involving motorcycle and ambulance chase, Kuldeep is overpowered by Raju and police team arrest him. Ramnath and his wife Radha are united who arrange the marriage of Raju with Shano.
The film gets a comical end when Raju is driving his car with Shano on a honeymoon trip. Just outside his house, Raju dashes his car with a police jeep driven by Inspector Dayal who call his police to arrest him. Soon Raju’s mother comes to plead with the inspector. So, even after the marriage, Raju’s getting involved with his unintended trouble with the police continues!
The film had five songs written by Majrooh Sultanpuri which were set to music by R D Burman. One song has been covered on the Blog. I present, the second song, a qawwali, ‘kyaa takalluf hai wallah leejiye dil Bismillah’ rendered by Mohammed Rafi, Bhupendra Singh and Asha Bhosle which is picturised on Vinod Khanna, Ashok Kumar and Reena Roy. respectively.
The context of the song is that Kuldeep (Amjad Khan) has arranged his birthday party in which he has invited Shano (Reena Roy) among others to join. Ramnath (Ashok Kumar) gets this news and thinks that in a birthday party, Kuldeep is going to play the dirty trick on Shano. So, both Raju (Vinod Khanna) and Ramnath joins the party, disguised as the qawwali singers and thwart the attempt by Kuldeep to serve drink mixed with drug to Shano to molest her later.
Video clip:
Audio clip:
Song-Kya takalluf hai wallah(Jail Yatra)(1981) Singers-Mohammed Rafi, Bhupinder Singh, Asha Bhosle, Lyricist-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-R D BurmanChorus
Lyrics
yaa mohiuddin hamkoapnaa jaaniye
dost dushman ko
zaraa pahchaaniye
aa aa aaa
hotee hai naadaan ye umr-e-shabaab
arre kuchh bujurgon kaa bhee kahnaa maaniye
aa aa aa
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
hind kee tum laila
arre waah
hind kee tum laila
main sehra kaa majnu Abdullah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
aaaaaaaaaa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
kyaa takalluf
haan kyaa takalluf
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
wallah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
hind kee tum laila
aaahe waah
hind kee tum laila
main sehraa kaa majnu Abdullah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
sochiye mat ab jyaadaa
jaaneman jaane jaanaa
aapke Abdullah kaa
hai ye pehla nazraana
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
sochiye mat ab jyaadaa
jaaneman jaane jaanaa
aapke Abdullah kaa
hai ye pehla nazraana
nazraana
nazraana
nazraana
haan
hai ye pehla nazraana
o youn na dekho
ye abhee to ibtidaa hai ulfat kee
aage aage dekhiye kyaa badle karwat afsaanaa
aaj kee raat aayee hai jaane kitnee raaton ke baad
aapne deewaane ko hans kar to dekha shukr Allah
raaz kee baaten sare mahfil kisee se kyaa kahen
saamne aa jaayegaa tab
ham abhee se kyaa kahen
aa aa aa
hai nigehbaan wo Allah
leejiye dil Bismillah
hai nigehbaan wo Allah
leejiye dil Bismillah
Bismillah
Bismillah
Bismillah
Bismillah
Bismillah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
ae hind kee tum laila
aahe waah
hind kee tum laila
main sehra kaa majnu Abdullah aa
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
aapke in honthhon se
kyun lage sheesha kaa jaam
ye miley mere lab se to
baat hai mere gulfaam
rakh do pyaala
rakh do pyaala
pyaas ab aisee bhee kyaa
peena hai to pee bhee lenaa
hai padee ye saaree shaam
tu bhee sun le mere bete
mere saathhee kaa paighaam
apne pyaare haathh se
ab tu bhee rakh de apnaa jaam
hu hu hu hu hu
hu hu hu hu hu
hu hu hu hu hu
Allah rakhe laakhon saal
tumko yaar mehboobee
maante ho tum kehnaa
tum mein hai ye khoobhee
ab mere haathhon se lo o
ye jaam-e-mashroobee
pee gaye ik ghoont mein
pooraa saaghar maasha Allah
arre jo bhee ?? hai saaqee
tere maikhaane mein
wo bah jaayegaa aaj
ek hee paimaane mein
o o o
ab to inpe raham Allah
raham Allah
ab to inpe raham Allah
leejiye dil Bismillah
raham Allah…..
raham Allah……
raham Allah……
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
hind kee tum laila
aahe waah
hind kee tum laila
main sehraa kaa majnu Abdullah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
kyaa takalluf hai wallah
leejiye dil Bismillah
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June 11, 2026 at 9:04 pm
Many thanks for this post Sir jee !!!
Regards,
Avinash
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